However, new evidence suggests an extraordinary natural event may have indirectly played a significant role in this collapse: ...

As the years passed, the Mongol Empire began to crumble under the weight of internal divisions and external pressures. The ...

The Mongol fleet struck by storm at sea, from the Livre des Merveilles (early 15th century) - Getty As Genghis Khan lay dying in August 1227, he commanded his heir, Ögedei, to continue the mission of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Genghis Khan was a 13th-century warrior in central Asia who founded the Mongol Empire, which stretched from the Pacific Ocean to Europe. Much about Genghis Khan remains unknown. For instance, we don't ...

Humanity’s greatest land empire was made possible by non-human climate change. Many phenomena, real and imagined, have been attributed to global warming. From rising ocean levels to increased ...

was a long way from Wall Street. In order to learn about the history of money, I went to the middle of nowhere. Walking through a grassy plain, next to rolling hills, under a majestic blue sky. There ...

Researchers studying the rings of ancient trees in mountainous central Mongolia think they may have gotten at the mystery of how small bands of nomadic Mongol horsemen united to conquer much of the ...

"With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states ...